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The Monotremes

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The Monotremes play speedy melodic pop that's in the thrall of motown, pre-britpop janglecore with a touch of that new-wave goodness.

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Member Since: 2/5/2008
Band Website: themonotremes.co.uk
Band Members: Stu Anderson - Vocals, Alex Sones - Guitar & backing vocals, Michael Philip Smith - Bass, Dan Ward - Drums
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Don’t Mess With The Monotremes

Here at Monotreme HQ, we expect a certain decorum and standard of behaviour. Nothing over the top, just a quiet "Hello" will suffice. Here is an email sent by an un-named Monotreme to a band who we re...
Posted by The Monotremes on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:27:00 PST

A quick update on the world of the Monotremes :

We had a practice last night and had to cut three songs for our next gig as it is only a half an hour set! It was really difficult, but we decided to keep the two new ones in and cut "Broken Biscuits"...
Posted by The Monotremes on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:47:00 PST

Fiddlers Elbow

Thought I should write the Fiddlers Elbow entry before folks assumed I'd gone into hiding again :)To be honest when I first turned up at the venue, unimpressed is an understatement! It looks like a cr...
Posted by The Monotremes on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:38:00 PST

First headline gig coming up...

We have our first headline gig coming up on Friday at the Fiddlers Elbow in Kentish town. Am I nervous? No. Not really, to be honest I think the "late" slot is the worst slot. It's funny that they cal...
Posted by The Monotremes on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:56:00 PST

Rockin’ the Bull and Gate

If I do say so myself we were good at the Bull and Gate! Which is great considering the gig that went before :)The practice sessions that led up to the gig all went well, filling us all with confidenc...
Posted by The Monotremes on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:21:00 PST

Only fours days to go...

With our gig at the Bull and Gate approaching fast (Thursday night!), I thought I would write a quick update on the world on the Monotremes.As I said in my last entry, we are back in the practice stud...
Posted by The Monotremes on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:25:00 PST

Creekside

To follow up on my last blog, we had a practice last night - our first since the Metro gig - and it went really well. All the songs are sounding great and we managed to make "Closing down sale" sound ...
Posted by The Monotremes on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:19:00 PST

Metro...

Okay, so I have finally got round to writing about our third gig at the Metro and it's only two weeks until our next gig!We were originally going to be playing the Fiddlers Elbow as our third gig on t...
Posted by The Monotremes on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:50:00 PST

The Dry Bar

Our second gig was on the 3rd July 2008 at the Dry Bar, an "underground" bar between Smithfield and the Barbican. It was arranged by the promoter Mark - http://www.myspace.com/markthesound - who is a ...
Posted by The Monotremes on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:03:00 PST

Our first gig at the The White Hart

Okay, I realise that I have been blogging very little and doing this very often! Well here goes me turning over a new leaf. Over the next few days I am going to add a short description of our gigs so ...
Posted by The Monotremes on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:03:00 PST